The Champions League final in May will be moved to Paris from St. Petersburg because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, European football's governing body, UEFA, announced on February 25.
A once-powerful Kazakh politician Darigha Nazarbaeva, the eldest daughter of former President Nursultan Nazarbaev, has announced that she is giving up her parliamentary seat.
The Uzbek Embassy in Kazakhstan has officially requested detailed information from Kazakh authorities regarding more than a dozen Uzbek nationals held in custody over the deadly January unrest in the Central Asian nation.